Principal Product Manager, Risk Platform

Okex•San Jose, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Risk function at OKX is responsible for the overall risk and fraud prevention culture at the company. We're a team of risk-minded problem solvers who advise the business on the company's regulatory obligations and enterprise risk. We're also deeply committed to moving the needle on risk standards for the crypto industry, building products in a compliant way, and protecting the company from financial, regulatory and reputational risks. Our team consists of seasoned risk professionals who are based across our global offices. Our vision is building a world class smart and scalable risk service that will prevent, detect, and respond to fraud which will improve business revenue, reduce user friction, and enhance user trust . As the leader of it, you will own and build OKX fraud risk systems and manage the roadmap to enable our legitimate customers to gain access to a wide array of crypto assets. The scope of this role includes designing and developing risk models, risk products and risk platforms, integrating with fraud & risk vendors, enabling healthy business growth and enhancing customer risk experience. This role will work closely with risk strategy, risk analytics, operations, engineering partners and compliance to achieve the business success goals of the company. If you are an entrepreneurial product leader, who doesn't hesitate to propose bold ideas and roll up your sleeves to put them into action, this role will be a great fit for you.

Requirements

Master's degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Engineering or other quantitative discipline. Bachelor's degree with significant relevant experience will be considered.
5+ years of product management experience in the risk management area, familiar with risk decision engines, modeling services, risk analytics tooling etc
Ability to translate product strategy into detailed requirements, and communicate the requirements clearly to cross-functional teams, including but not limited to engineering, business, partnership, operation, merchant tech etc; solid technical background with understanding and hands-on experience in software development
High proficiency delving into the technical product, system and implementation details. Able to engage with engineering beyond just product and user experience needs; willing to roll up sleeves and design scalable and extensible solutions
Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle, including product research, design, delivery and launch
Data oriented - identifying, defining, tracking and acting upon impact metrics. Experience identifying KPIs and working with engineering and analytics on instrumentation and monitoring
Experience leading cross functional teams to deliver complex projects with multiple dependencies and constraints in a highly dynamic environment

Nice To Haves

Degrees of Masters, MBA, PHD are welcomed
Risk strategy or compliance related experience
Crypto/Blockchain experience or a passion for Bitcoin, crypto, Defi and blockchain technology
Past experience in AI and machine learning

Responsibilities

7+ years of product management experience in platform products, preferably risk management platform domain with experience in decision engines, modeling services, risk analytics tooling, case management, etc
Ability to translate product strategy into detailed requirements, and communicate the requirements clearly to cross-functional teams, including but not limited to engineering, business, partnership, operation, merchant tech etc; solid technical background with understanding and hands-on experience in software development
High proficiency delving into the technical product, system and implementation details. Able to engage with engineering beyond just product and user experience needs; willing to roll up sleeves and design scalable and extensible solutions
Proven track record of managing all aspects of a successful product throughout its lifecycle, including product research, design, delivery and launch
Data oriented - identifying, defining, tracking and acting upon impact metrics. Experience identifying KPIs and working with engineering and analytics on instrumentation and monitoring
Experience leading cross functional teams to deliver complex projects with multiple dependencies and constraints in a highly dynamic environment